Sunday bowled a 10 game sweeper on usbc white 2 41 foot pattern. Threw the Arson High Flare the first 7 games with 268,277,278,226,247,287,184 to start should have made a ball change a game sooner. Went to the track tour sic and finished with 249,290,278. Ended up +583 with second place only being +391. Arson high flare is a great ball for me. ( yes this is a figjam but it may have been my single best day of bowling that i can recall!) I took the polish off the arson hight flare and it was easily the strongest ball in my bag. And it's hard not to notice it going down the lane with those colors it has. And the Tour SIC is a very underrated ball.

Monday bowled an 8 gamer on the 2015 IB OPEN pattern and finished 7th out of 91 bowlers  throwing a red legend. Great stuff being put out there in my opinion. And you can also never go wrong the the trusty gamebreaker 2. With the summer releases still yet to come and the great results seen at the summer swing for EBI i'm hoping for a lot more good things from them in the future.

I've already had it at 1000,2000, 4000 and they all rolled great. It will be  more than both low flares but quite a bit since it has such a strong core. Especially on the back. But I think they will compliment each other very well as I have surface on my original low flare as well

Same to you on your weekend Robert.

I was looking at that Arson HF, might have to buy a new weapon with the league prize money. I haven't bought a Hammer since the Brawl, which I really loved.

Honestly I'm not a huge fan of leaving a ball shiny oob. Like said on so many other threads you won't ever get it back to what it was. And if you watch the Jayhawk scanner video a ball goes to 5000 grit in three games anyways. For me it's best to shine it up naturally on the lanes it will last a lot longer and won't slide past the break point like a shiny ball will. Plus changing surface on the fly during practice is a very useful tool.

Correct. Always have pads with me do it dry by hand. If you ever watch the shows or practice during Xtra frame you will see the reps doing this all the time

After practice, if needed, I will scuff the entire ball as per rules, but you really only need to scuff the track area or bow-tie.

Great bowling